I R€Vl€W Coe.,, d /. •"• 1doho Thursday. April 8, 1982
Volume 36, Number 12
Week-l?ng convocation to explore '1984' theme by Sbartyn Dittman and Tresa McLaagblln
"The Future of the United States: Will Orwell's '1984' Be Realized?" will be the theme for the 1981-82 NJC convocation series. which will run April 12-16 and will feature five keynote speakers. The speaker~. a different one on each of the five days of rhe sympo· sium, will include R. Buckmins re r Fuller, Dr. Milton Roke11eh. Phjljp L. Bereano. Dr. Jerry Rosenberg and Nicholas Johnson. Eocb will discuss the relationship between the twentieth century high-speed change and technology. in parlicular the errccts It has on individual liberties In the United Stares. TI1e expression of AMn Tomer in "Eco-Spa.sm" will be the underlying rhoughr. that of" Under the conditions of high-speed change. n democracy withouc the ability to 11n1icipate condemns Itself 10 death. " Fu ller wlll 1peak on Monday. A world renowned futurist who b said 10 be "this planet·~ friendly genius," he ,.,!JI address the topic of technology nt work in the future and how it can prevent rhe des1ruc11on of che planet. Fuller will !>pcnlc RI 11 o.m. in the C-A Auditorium. Fuller is a retired professor from Southern lllinols Univcrbhy lllld the Universicy of Pennsylvania, and he was educated at Harvard and 111 the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Md. He hllS wriuen 24 boob and has received 4S honor11ry doctorate de grees nnd over J00 national nnd International awards. Fuller also has 138 world parents registered 10 his Invention~. and he is &, years old. Rokeoch will be the fcoture d speaker on Tuesday ut 9 a.m. in the C-A Auditorium. Well-known for his rcsc11rch and application 1es11ng of human values used to describe che
political and socilll behavior or people, his theme will focu.s on data that shows tele vision is us ed to ch ange 1be attitudes , value s and behavior of Americans. A professor of sociology and psychology al Washington Suire University. Rokeach received bis Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1947. He is I.he author of five boots on the subject. Wednesda} 's speakcT will be Ber· enno. who will lcctw:'C at noon in the C-A Aud1tonum. He will focus on the idea that technology enhances human freedoms rathe r 1h_11n endangering them. Be reano is a pro fessor of social manage men t of technology nt rhe Unlver'(hI of Washington and is an attorney. He was educated at Cornell and Columbia Unwcrsitv. The featured spea.ke; on Thursday will be Ro~cnbcrg, en expen on the rclnrion,h ip of cechnology to man. Rose nberg will deli"cr hi~ speech at 10 a m. in the C-A Audlronum. The theme or Rosenberg's address will center around man's steadily decrca~ing con trol o, er h1~ O\\ n hfe. It w1U includl' the loss of man's dec15ionmak ing oppon uni tic~ due 10 the increasing mcchanu.atlon or coda) ·s society. R()ll(lobt'rg ohtalncd bis Ph.D. Cro111 New York Uni\'crsit), in 1962 and t\ a rec1p1en1 of rhc Fulbn gh1 and French Go,·emmc nt awards. He also swdicd nt the Sorbonne's Center of Higher Studlh in Paris In I 1157 Rosenberg 1s mo,1 " idel~ :icdaimed for hh boo~. " The Depth of Pri,·acy." but be has :iho aullilored three othCJ" books on 1h1S subject. rontlooed oo p. 12
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Pao) Baler photo READY FOR 19M-:"i1C Pttsldcnt Ban:, Scholer and ASNIC President Jim Brewer Dash lhelr l'Oll,ixatlon " eek T-sbl.rts designed by 1111thropolog) lostroclor Richard "Dule" Snyder. The e,ent, "' hk h ls slated oe:rt "~k. wUI ha\l! a theme based on ~ rgc o.....en·~ " 1984."
Tape recorders Board in quandary over use b) Paa.I Baler Tape recorders arc :apparcntl> still allOllied 111 AS:-IIC Student Board meetings after sciutors failed April 6 to we from the wle a motion to reconsider banning them Thc board had voted 3-4 March I b !IOI to bu recording devtces from their mt'cungs but then al a ~pcc,:al April 111ectiog recoosulercd and tabled the motioo until April b. After hearing board Adviser TOIi) Stewart explaui the board's fuoci ion and its leg:al stmding, it decided UJ.fomwly not to a.11- recorders 10 be used if there were ao1 obJccrions by Bll) spealer S1ewan. v.bo presented the board's posmoo to an attorney. said I.hat the members v.ould not be restncung frttdom of the pr~ bur \\Ould be protect ing the freedom of speech o f ~ char did not ,,..-uh 10 be recorded. "As long as one person v. ho al.so bu rights wishes not to be put on tape recorder. you cao DOI force them onto :1 tape recorder under their civil right~." Ste-- m said. B) failing to formall) bring the motion off the 1:1ble. che previous vore of Morch lb still su.ods, according to Roont's Rule of Order, which Ati1cle VI of the ASNIC Consmunon suites the board ,..,u foUO".